Motivational Quotes

Happiness

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

- Feather, William

Best Quotes about Happiness

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Stossel, John

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

Chuck Sigars

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Prevert, Jacques

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Lee, Bruce

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Downs, Hugh

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Traherne, Thomas

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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

David Nicholls

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Josh Billings

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Addison, Joseph

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

Thomas, John M.

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Landor, Walter Savage

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Happiness requires problems

Hollingworth, H. L.

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

Bonnell, John S.

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Russell, Bertrand

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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Meredith, Owen

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Palmer, Gretta Brooker

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

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Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

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Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Stein, Ben

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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Barthel, Mildred

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel